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ROB HALFORD And His Brother To Launch ‘Hails & Horns’ English Bitter Ale
JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford and his “beer aficionado” brother Nigel have teamed up with Backyard Brewhouse from their hometown of Walsall, a large industrial town in West Midlands County in England, U.K., to make the Hails & Horns modern English bitter Halford ale. The beer will premiere exclusively at this coming weekend’s Bloodstock Open Air festival. Halford, who celebrated the 35th anniversary of his getting sober in January, spoke to “Across The Board”, the podcast series hosted by songwriter/producer Emiko and producer Mike Exeter (JUDAS PRIEST, BLACK SABBATH), about how he manages to stay clean on the road. “It’s not easy,” he said. It’s very much a day at a time. You’re given all the tools and resources from your r...
ScHoolboy Q Previews New Music During Twitch Stream
ScHoolboy Q previewed a batch of unreleased music during his latest Twitch stream, giving fans hope that the followup to CrasH Talk is finally on its way. One of the cuts featured a lengthy piano intro before the TDE artist hopped on to deliver a series of hard-hitting bars, another featured Rico Nasty and one was produced by frequent collaborator The Alchemist. Q didn’t share any additional information about the tracks, leaving listeners to wonder when a new record will finally show up. Q’s last full-length effort dates back to April 2019’s CrasH Talk, which featured guest appearances from Travis Scott, 6LACK, Ty Dolla $ign, YG, 21 Savage, Kid Cudi and Lil Baby. The album went on to debut at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and marked the artist’s third top 10 effort. He has, however, appeared ...
De La Soul Speaks on the Return of Their Catalog To Streaming Services
It is a good day for De La Soul fans as the group announced earlier today that their entire catalog will soon be available to stream on platforms everywhere. The announcement follows Reservoir Music’s recent $100 million USD acquisition deal of the De La Soul’s original label, Tommy Boy Records. The group’s iconic discography is set to be available this year. In an Instagram live, Trugoy the Dove said, “We have come to a deal between ourselves and Reservoir to release our music in 2021 — our catalog will be released this year, we are working diligently with the good folks at Reservoir, and we sat down with them and got it done pretty quickly actually. Our music will be released in 2021 on all streaming platforms…we’re trying to get the whole catalog out there. It’ll take a minute…little mi...
Still Unbroken: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Marks 50 Years of an Improbable Album
This week marks 50 years since the band recorded the 38-track set in six focused days at Nashville’s Woodland Sound Studios. Originally released on three vinyl discs in the fall of 1972, it never spawned any actual hit singles, though it did peak at No. 4 on Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart. People heard about it through word-of-mouth, Dirt Band concerts and significant critical attention, given in great part because it was a grand experiment that managed to cross multiple gaps — generational, cultural, stylistic and geographical — in an era when America was divided by urban violence and the Vietnam War. “I have close friends that said, ‘You kind of helped bridge that gap between my dad and me; we would put this record on, have something in common,R...
Inside Fall Out Boy’s Detroit Return to the Hella Mega Tour After Positive COVID-19 Test
Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo also celebrated Fall Out Boy’s return to the stage. “Fall Out Boy’s back! Very excited,” Cuomo announced during his band’s set. Noting that Weezer had played “Sugar, We’re Going Down” in their tourmates’ stead, he said, “I’m not gonna do that tonight. It would be weird. Plus, they sing it really awesome.” Wentz also had an answer for anyone who questions rock ‘n’ roll’s current drawing power. “We decided to challenge that theory and put together the biggest f—ing rock tour this summer,” he said of the Hella Mega outing. Looking over a crowd of more than 30,000, he noted that “it’s pretty f—ing evident the kids still listen to rock ‘n’ roll!” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reima...
Will Jennifer Hudson Extend Oscar Nomination Streak for Biopic Performances?
Three times before this streak, actors received lead acting nods two years in a row for playing real-life music personalities. Jamie Foxx won best actor for playing Ray Charles in Ray (2004). The following year, Joaquin Phoenix was nominated in that category for playing Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, and his co-star, Reese Witherspoon, won best actress for playing June Carter Cash. Twenty years earlier, Tom Hulce was nominated for best actor for playing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus (1984), while his co-star, F. Murray Abraham, won in that category for playing his rival, Antonio Salieri. The following year, Jessica Lange was nominated for best actress for playing country legend Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams. The first time that actors received back-to-back Oscar nominations for playing r...
Billie Eilish Leads Trio of Teens at the Top of Billboard 200 — Has That Ever Happened?
So has that ever happened before? On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Keith takes a trip down memory lane to see if there’s ever been another trio of teenagers in the top three before. Listen to the new episode to hear his findings: Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on Prince’s new album Welcome 2 America scoring the late legend his highest-charting new album in more than a decade and The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber taking over at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Stay.” Plus, we’ve got news about The Weeknd’s latest single “Take My Breath,” new music coming from Lizzo and a very special guest this week, and drama surrounding the 2014 hit song “Bang Bang” from Jessie J, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande. The Billbo...
‘Pokémon Go’ Developer Niantic Acquires 3D Scanning App
Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go, has acquired a 3D scanning app called Scaniverse, the company shared today. The purchase comes as part of the game developer’s plan to expand into augmented reality hardware and software. Niantic’s vision for its AR experiences includes a “dynamic spatial map of the world rendered from 3D scanned locations,” said Kjell Bronder, AR Group Product Manager, in the announcement. The developer has already begun crowdsourcing images from notable Wayspots — in-game sites of interaction for Pokémon Go players — including the Gandhi sculpture in San Francisco and Maneki-Neko shrine in the Gotokuji Temple in Tokyo. Scaniverse enables users to document, edit and share 3D content via a smartphone. The app’s addition to Niantic will contribute to making its “mul...
Xbox Announces Gamescom 2021 Stream
Xbox announced their upcoming Gamescom live stream. Usually, the yearly Gamescom event would occur in Cologne, Germany. However, this year Gamescom will be a completely virtual experience that will be available for fans all around the world. From the Xbox Stream, the gaming company will provide detailed updates about previously revealed Xbox Game Studios titles. Additionally, Xbox is set to discuss forthcoming gaming titles that are slated to arrive this holiday season, forthcoming releases to the Xbox Game Pass monthly subscription service and more. To continue the social experience that is typically present at Gamescom, Xbox will be hosting a special edition FanFest, allowing fans to connect with each other from around the globe and share in the news from the upcoming event. More details...
The Weeknd Shares Extended Version of Latest Single “Take My Breath”
The Weeknd surprised fans with an extended cut of his newest single, “Take My Breath.” Clocking in at almost six minutes, the latest version hears an additional two minutes that’s packed in the extended intro and the bridge. The XO Records head initially teased the new single by clearing out his Instagram account and tweeting “f*ck it … IT STARTS TONIGHT.” He also shared in his recent GQ cover story that his upcoming project will be a “successful” one, “What makes any of my albums a successful album, especially this one, is me putting it out and getting excited to make the next one. So the excitement to make the next project means that this one was successful to me.” He continued, “I want to do this forever. And even if I start getting into different mediums and different types of expressi...
Big Thief’s New Single Is an Effervescent, New York City Love Song
Big Thief is back. The Brooklyn-by-way-of-Berklee indie-rock band released their first new music since their 2019 album Two Hands. The single, “Little Things” is a skittering love letter that takes place in New York City. Singer-guitarist Adrianne Lenker encompasses that big/small duality in the way her voice whittles a declaration of love into a mumble: “The little things I like about you/ How you say when you say what you do.” The song was recorded with Shawn Everett at Five Star Studios last October and features one of the band’s most inventive arrangements yet. “It’s in this sort of evolving free time signature where the beat is always changing, so Max [Oleartchik] and I were just flowing with it and guessing where the downbeats were, which gives the groove a really cool, light feeling...
Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst Was Outbid for a Bootleg “Dad” Action Figure of Himself
Despite Limp Bizkit canceling the remainder of their summer tour, Fred Durst’s new “dad” look is taking the internet by storm. So much so, that someone created a Fred Durst “dad” action figure that garnered a losing eBay bid from the nu-metal singer himself. Durst first debuted his new look on Instagram, sporting a gray wig, horseshoe mustache, and an outfit that looks like it came straight off the racks of Sears. He then rocked the same look at Lollapalooza, and the band’s next couple of shows, until the tour came to a halt just a few gigs into the planned itinerary. On his Instagram Story, Durst shared an image of the crude looking action figure presented in an official-looking box, writing, “I lost the auction on this illegal toy. Things are good.” The image also showed that the “Nookie...
